Where They Come From and How To Cultivate Them
It has often been said in recent months that one benefit from the global financial crisis is that funds managers and investment banks will not be vacuuming up the best brains in the world in future; they will be left to pursue more worthwhile endeavours such as medical research, physics or engineering.
Is that too harsh? What have those best brains achieved during the 20-year financial services bubble?
STEPHEN SHORE and GREG BRIGHT look at how ideas are generated and whether the investment management industry is well equipped for innovation.
InTech’s largest remaining external client, the $1.8 billion ClearView Managed Investments, will consider walking away now that the consultant’s parent, Skandia, is to be bought by financial planning competitors to ClearView. 
Australian super funds could play a big part in stabilising our beleaguered listed property sector, by providing REITs with the long-term loans that they currently lack, according to the executive director of AMP Capital Investors’ global listed property joint venture. 
